Re: FreeBSD HVM guests?

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:16:23AM +0100, Hugo Silva wrote:
> >it would, yes. if there is a FreeBSD PV kernel it would be the
> >best option
> >
> >
>
> It does have domU support, altough with some problems -
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen
>
> The servers I have in mind are fairly busy webservers, quad core CPUs,
> so much for low I/O.
>
> In your experience, is the slowdown due to HVM unnaceptable? Out of
> curiosity, could the ne2000 emulated device saturate even a 100mbit link
> (I'm running on gigabit) ?
The ne2000 emulated device can hardly saturate a 10Mbits link.
The disk I/O is also very slow.
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